April 17, 2008

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House Democrats Thursday demanded the appearance of Karl Rove before the House Judiciary Committee in an ongoing investigation into alleged selective and politically motivated prosecutions.

The request comes in the wake of a "60 Minutes" investigation into the jailing of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. A Judiciary Committee report accuses the Justice Department of failing to cooperate in the investigation but still finds “troublesome facts” surrounding Siegelman's prosecution and imprisonment. Siegelman was recently released pending an appeal.

“Several witnesses have corroborated testimony before two Judiciary subcommittees that the investigation against Gov. Siegelman was ‘coming to a close’ without charges until Washington officials directed local prosecutors to go back over the matter from top to bottom, and that decisions regarding the Siegelman case were being made at the very highest levels of the administration,” the report says. “That testimony in turn corroborates the sworn statements of a Republican attorney that the son of the Republican governor of Alabama told her that Karl Rove had pressed the Department to bring charges.”

The committee also urged the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate the allegations. It also demanded that Attorney General Michael Mukasey provide additional documents on the subject.

“The actions we are taking today, including calling Karl Rove to testify, are an effort to get to the bottom of this matter,” Conyers said.

So, the Democrats are losers? The real losers are the Republicans because they are the "Party that brought you the mess in Iraq", the gift that keeps on taking young lives and national treasure. Read the latest: Over 300,000 of our soldiers were brain damaged in the neverending war. Actually, America is the loser as long as foolish right-wing hacks are in charge. As for Rove, he's a smarmy political operative who had a hand in many of the hare-brained Republican schemes. Sounds like a candidate for The Medal of Freedom, if you use the Bush criteria.

There is an allegation of a miscarriage of justice. It should be looked into. This country is founded on laws. It's the governments job to ensure those laws are upheld and followed; that laws are not abused.

When will the Dems ever figure out that this stuff doesn't work anymore? People are wise to their tactics and the more Dems try them, the more voters want to vote Republican. There are reasons that Bush and Cheney are not in jail. They comitted no crime.

all my life I have believed that when a goverment body like the Judiciary committe "demanded" that a citizen appear, that there was some force of law behind that demand. We all know now that this doesn't apply to the President or anyone the President designates. There is nothing this committe can do to compell Rove, or anyone else the President designates. I assume this must be true since various committes have been "demanding" Mr Rove testify for years now. What we need to do is figure out how Bush has engineered this unitary executive role and make sure that no administration can ever again tell the American people that "if the President does it, that means it's not illegal".

Look, I agree with the posters who lament that Rove will prolly either deliver an oscar-worthy legally-passable testimony or (more likely) he will avoid testifying at all. Hell, if he managed to skirt past the Valerie Plame investigation that nailed Scooter Libby, then I have to believe he is just damn good at not getting caught.
So why should we (democrats and republicans) pursue this? For the same damn reason we needed to follow-up on whether or not Bill Clinton lied to a grand jury. It frackin' matters!
Rove dwells in the highest eschelons of power in the world. He remains a seminal influence within the administration and has forever colored this period of American governance and (botched) hegemony.
There is a short list of folks who, if they become suspect or are caught at *anything*, then the affair has to be investigated, if only to keep the collective American conscience clear. Anyway, we owe history the barest responsibility of at least having tried to live and govern by a nonpartisan rule of law.

"Stuff doesn't work any more" You mean the stuff the republicans used for years against Clinton? Hearing after hearing over fabricated wrong doing. Perhaps no one will go to jail but most Americans, except for the dead-enders, know a morally bankrupt Republican administration when they see it. Freedon Fries anyone?

Please someone get that semi-smooth criminal Rove. It may sound mean, but if we can't lock up G W Bush, then lock up his brain. If he has done what he is accused of, then he should go to jail. If found guilty don't send him to jail until after Bush has left office, because just like Scooter he'll be pardoned

This entire story has been debunked. Rove had nothing to do with the entire affair. She lied, the media lied and the Democrats, as usual bought the lie. The only liars for the past seven years have been the Democrats and their lying operatives.

Everyone who brings up the Siegelman case conveniently leaves out the fact that Siegelman was still tried and convicted in a court of law. The U.S. Attorneys even if trigger-happy in bringing the case still had to make the SAME BURDEN OF PROOF as any other case to get a conviction. Unless they want to allege that Karl Rove also tampered with the jury and bribed the judge, there is little to investigate here. Siegelman is entitled to the same appeals process as everyone else, but the justice system already corrects for any of this stuff.

Gotta luv you dems on hear convicting Rove before he even testifies. Tolerant party my butt. He's kicked your tails for years and you can't stand it. Yep, he's made dems his boy toy for years and he'll keep on doing it as he's too smart for you.

Rove has always been sleezy, even at UT. He's unethical and callous and thats pretty easy to agree on from both sides of the aisle. Even as a republican, I can't stand this man. he has almost single handedly delivered us into the corrput campaign world we are in today.